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Ive always been afraid of heights and never took flying on planes lightly even though I used to do it a lot. But its really only take offset and landings for the most part you need to worry about most.And I will never fly in a private jet or helicopter just commercial airliners.

Four hours in a tin can sitting next to someone who doesn't believe in deodorant and in front of a seat kicker, now that's my fear. And going through security where they make you take your shoes off and the guy in front of you has the most hideous feet, you want to jump back in line so your bare feet don't come in direct contact with his footsteps.

I don't fly, so no. It's probably safe but the real issue I have with it is all of the germs. Ugh it's a germ factory and I cannot stand being around that many people with no way to escape. When I have flown, it's cool to look out the window and see the ground, like when we went to TX and flew along the Gulf Coast, you could tell where you were because it looked exactly like the map, and seeing the tankers lined up in the Gulf headed to Galveston and the refineries was really cool. So I guess if I get a window seat I can tolerate it but I also don't want to encourage the destruction of our liberties and the molestation of citizens by the TSA. I've done enough international travel as a kid to have seen places and things, and I don't have any desire to leave the US unless I'm never coming back. I would get on a plane for that!

Flying was my way of life for a fair amount of years so im not afraid. However, ive never been one to wag my finger in the face of fate. So you wouldnt catch me flying malaysia airlines or flying in any plane whose flightplan included near a war zone. Im guessing I wont see israel in my lifetime with these rules. Lol

I am the same! I cannot count how many times I have flown yet my anxiety gets worse and worse every flight. When I know I am flying I now have anxiety the entire weeks/months leading up to the flight. It's getting to the point it is almost not worth it... yet I WANT to travel. It does me no good to remind myself that the fear is irrational, that cars are more dangerous...

As long as I am not flying anywhere near a war zone and I've never been near a war zone on a plane to my knowledge and not flying in bad weather, and I have flown in a few thunderstorms and some bad turbulence once, enough that I thought oh I may puke if this up and down stuff keeps going on but it stopped after 45 minutes, I wouldn't give it a second thought. Now my brothers and their families, on separate flights, were caught by a big storm in Canada and Northeastern States on the Friday before March break and their planes were stuck on the tarmac at Pearson for 5 - 6 hours because of delays and having to de-ice twice. Now that would make me nervous on takeoff. But wouldn't you rather be in the Caribbean and risk it? Yeah I would.

More worried about the state of the roads when you are flying in and out of Toronto or Buffalo in the winter time.

In Canada, the airlines have a good safety record, probably one of the best in the world, same with most of the US airlines but I'd be a bit nervous flying some discount airlines in other countries like in South America or Asia or Russia, for sure but even in Europe I tend to fly with airlines I've had good experiences with, like KLM.

Flying in much smaller planes is a bit more interesting but I have done it a few times on vacation tours. Helicopter ride is still on the bucket list.

Astra I get your point about the germs esp when it was highlighted in the news last year or so. Feel like one needs a CSI black light at all times. But I always say that which does not kill me makes me stronger.

The thing that put me off flying was an article in the New Yorker many years ago on plane accident investigation and reconstruction. Part of the article included a detailed reconstruction of approximately what happened inside the cabin of a plane that almost literally fell out of the sky over Pennsylvania a few years before. That really put me off flying. I used to enjoy it before that.

@Horseloving Gal - you should seriously look into taking prescription tranquilizers when you travel. I've dealt with anxiety issues forever, and never made the connection until a few years ago. Taking them (I just need them at night - I'm very sensitive to medicine) just before and while I travel has actually made tra

I was in a mid air plane collision in a small airplane when I was 12 (we hit another plane in mid-air, but we didn't crash). For some reason, it never made me afraid to fly. I actually enjoy the experience.

No. I love to fly and I'm a pilot's daughter. It might literally be in my blood to love air travel. Stats show that it's far safer than automobile travel anyway, yes?

crila, that's darling. I love that you're in two awesome cities doing awesome falling-in-love things, too. Mazel, bella! Maybe you could send me some CDaN-family good-vibes so that I could finally find someone as well?! ;-)

[Truth be told, I have a feeling, as has my mother, that I won't find Mr. Stellar until I finally finish school COME-PLEETE-LEE! (next week!) and hit 40 (next year!). I just feel like my forties are going to be amazing and all of the past shit will be WORTH IT!]

Flying always makes me anxious. I think it's a control thing, though I'm not a controlling person at all. But on an airplane I feel claustrophobic, bored, anxious, restive--- just altogether powerless to be able to do anything to ensure my safety. Strange, but if I was flying the plane I'd feel better.

Not at all. Ill tell u what thi, i wont ever cruise again. I dont want to get shipwrecked while captain boffing his mistress, i dont want to be on ship with outbreak of norovirus, and i dont want to be on ship with engine trouble. Pass, pass and pass!

I wish I could think that way, Tina. But I am a terrible hypochondriac and it only gets worse the older I get. And now there's Ebola to worry about! I don't know if it can get out of Africa and around the world but with my luck, I'd be the one sitting next to the infected person. Scary!

Did you like cruises auntliddy? I went on one and HATED it. I couldn't sleep, the rocking of the ship made me sick, we were in the cheap cabin with no window and I have horrific claustrophobia...the food was good though even though we never ate a buffet, just walked through to see them. We ate all our meals in the dining room, my mother thought it would avoid food poisoning. We didn't get sick so maybe it worked. Where did you go?

I'm a bit freaked out by this crash but more because I flew out of Amsterdam ten days prior to it than anything else. But the airline I flew (Etihad) had stopped flying over Ukraine in April....still, this could have been any plane with any of us not it....

Probably not flying Malaysian Airlines any time soon. I can't believe some of the planes I've traveled in. Old retired Russian models brought back to life, six seaters. They always make it to the destination. I figure the pilot doesn't want to die.

Absolutely terrified. Lost power in the air when we were flying to Europe when I was 18, and it's snowballed since then. Last flight was a ridiculously turbulent bout from Reno to Vegas, and I was a stupid mess. Since then, a dear friend lost her mom (pilot) in a plane crash. I simply don't think it will ever get easier for me, as others have said, the fear grows astronomically as I get older. Ughhh.

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